Hats off to 2007 MCM award winners

| MCM staff

After months of suspense, the winners of the annual Multichannel Merchant Awards were announced at the Annual Conference for Catalog & Multichannel Merchants (ACCM) in Boston at a special luncheon ceremony on May 22. Although you’ll have to wait until the September issue of Multichannel Merchant to read profiles of the winners, for now here’s the complete list of the 2007 award recipients.

Home Depot sheds HD Supply unit

| Jim Tierney

After spending the past decade building up its business-to-business division, home improvement products retailer Home Depot has sold the unit to a trio of private equity firms:Bain Capital, The Carlyle Group, and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

A lesson in catalog anatomy

| MCM staff

When you sell charts, posters, and models of various parts of the human anatomy, it’s not always easy to sex up your catalog design. Anatomical Chart

Richard Thalheimer’s solo act

| Jim Tierney

Richard Thalheimer is back in action. Less than a year after he was replaced as chairman/CEO of The Sharper Image Corp., Thalheimer has unveiled an e-commerce

Deciphering Web Data

| MCM staff

You are sitting on a pile of incredibly useful data. You just don’t know it yet. But if you’re tracking results on your paid search campaign, online display

April mailings inch up

| Tim Parry

April isn’t just about rain showers, it also brings spring catalogs. Catalog Tracker started off the second quarter with 370 catalogs received for April,

Lab Safety Supply buys McFeely’s

| MCM staff

Business-to-business multititle mailer Lab Safety Supply keeps adding to its stable. The merchant in June announced it had acquired the assets of McFeely’s Square Drive Screws, a woodworking tools and supplies merchant that logged more than $9 million in sales last year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.